Art of the Ancient World
This is just a collection of some the artwork, geometry, instruments, and designs of the ancient world. Raphael’s depiction of the unmoved mover from the Stanza della Segnatura: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover The Divine Comedy’s Empyrean, illustrated by Gustave Doré The Candida Rosa is the place where the souls reside in the Paradise built by Dante : «Therefore in the form of a white rose / the holy militia was shown to me / which Christ made a bride in his blood.» (Paradiso – Canto thirty-first , vv. 1-3 ) In ancient European cosmologies inspired by Aristotle, the Empyrean Heaven, Empyreal or simply the Empyrean, was the place in the highest heaven, which was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire (or aether in Aristotle’s natural philosophy). The word derives from the Medieval Latin empyreus, an adaptation of the Ancient Greek empyros (ἔμπυρος), meaning…
